NY Times Dismisses Bloggers As Crackpots

I wanted to write more or less this response to the Times' take on blogs, but Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis beat me to it. At least the Times is consistent. A recent article about election fraud also painted the blogosphere as a worldwide coven of conspiracy-loving, blithering twits. Says Jarvis:

"The Times is trying to marginalize blogs — making them look like the domain of nuts — without realizing that they are only marginalizing their own readers. See this weekend's Pew study: The people are reading blogs. And I'll just bet that Times readers read blogs disproportionately."

That Pew study is here, by the way.